Our twins turned 18 months old this weekend!  A year and a half.  Isn’t that crazy?  We celebrated by taking Daddy to the library.  He had never seen the train table or the board books and none of us had ever dared to go in the section for what I call the “big” kids (you know, the 2-4 year olds).  So we did it!  Rissa and Zach traipsed around showing everything to Daddy… the magic button that opens the doors and the ramp that we usually travel via our stroller but this time via our legs (it’s hard to slow down at the turns when you are propelling faster and faster and your tiny legs can’t hardly keep up with the downward slope!) and the amazing train table.  Daddy was duly impressed and now understands more about the important things in an 18 month old’s life.  Things like the library.  Very important, even though we forgot to bring the camera to document our first time there with Daddy.

Shots were rough but the well baby visits went swimmingly well overall!  I would like to proudly announce that we are no longer off the charts (the smallest babies in their peer group) or at the 3rd percentile or the 5th percentile or even the 10th percentile.  That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, our amazing children are hanging out quite firmly at the 25th percentile for weight!!!  They jumped 15 percentile points in 3 months!  This means they grew extra extra because they are technically younger than their peers by 6 weeks (or half of that 3 month timeframe)!  I could not have been more proud.

Rissa is still at the 50th percentile for height… she is very long and lean.  Tall and gorgeous… this girl can do whatever she’d like!  Zach had been growing more and more portly around the middle but wasn’t showing much height growth at his last appointment.  He reversed the trend and sprung upward quite a bit, while maintaining his rotund little belly and beautifully chunky thighs and cheeks.  Oh how I love chunky thighs and cheeks on babies!  I predicted to Matt the morning of our appointment that our pediatrician would say that they look “quite robust” and I was dead on.  “Quite robust!” he exclaimed.  Yeah, baby, those are MY robust little kids!  The ones who used to be anything but robust!  Looking good, Zach and Rissa, looking good.  He also mentioned (as he often does) that no one would believe what we have been through in the past 18 months from looking at them now because they are doing so well and started out with so many concerns!  It is so true… the difficulties with pooping and growing and the heart and lung monitors and the worries about whether they would eat.  I remember all of it!  And thanks to this blog, so do you!  We’ve all been through alot these past 18 months, hmm?

For you tiny twins out there who are bottoming out the charts (you know who you are), your time will come!

I am so grateful for healthy children who are developing right along the path each of them is set to follow.  They are becoming exactly the people that God meant for them to be and we can’t expect any more than that!